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In today's episode 20, "How Accountants Can Be More Productive by Working Less" with special guest Carl Reader, founder of dandt accountants and bestselling author of BOSS IT. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlreader

You can also watch this on youtube here: https://youtu.be/zZfzY20IAUg

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Key takeaways from this episode include:

✶ one of the core problems that limits all people in all jobs, especially accounting and fintech

✶ why working harder is not necessarily better for accountancy professionals

✶ the other important aspects of being a working professional aside from the billable hours

✶ the five different kinds of work that accountants engage in, and which take up the most time

✶ the importance of ideation, innovation and inspiration for technically smart professionals and entrepreneurs

✶ why a $1000 moment is better than a $200 hour for any business professional

✶ what more time spent on ideation can do for accounting practices in driving growth and innovation

✶ the problems in productivity caused by slavery to your email inbox and instant messages

✶ how to avoid falling into the pandemic culture of longer virtual meetings

✶ how accountants can engage in more creative ideation for problem solving and being more productive

✶ Book recommendation - "Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork" by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy

Source for today's piece: https://www.fastcompany.com/90739838/you-just-might-be-more-productive-if-you-work-less

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